The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-11-10

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Chesp labor 10 Earope AID IL lahoI
sueh factor 10 the production o. mana
tsclures As 70 orefbalAnoe and ovacomi
al ibese advantages 40 possess Aye
Mr. Pfesieebi. IL 10: lsosuse laber make
up oae.balf The eost q all msuniaetart
srtielos- ! Do not mean 10 say that labo
i one half The cost Of . ehesp piece o
cotton cloth, but mcAn that the averag,
ia one ball labor 10 al Manufactured pro
ducts.
Nov, le, me give you few illustration
OF shat ! saw; and they will be facts, no'
iascics will start with Italy. All. v,
haven't got much competition with Italy
Why 80 there : Why, my friends, llsl,
is ooc Of The coming powers Of Enrop'
today. I,aly's voice Is potent. aud vii
be more potent as the years pass by. I,sl,
has entered upon a new life, il has todA!
nearly $4,000 900 Of people, aud it has, IL
ny Judgment, the most segaeious ruler il
III Europe today, King Humbert. 1t ha
a great nayy; it Is reaching ont for com,
meree 10 way that this great American
people never have dared 10 reach cut.
9ent into cotton factory IN Italy. 4
great many people OF the United State
hardly knew that Italy had entered upol
cotton manufacture. But King Humber
says: have millions Of people here il
Italy without work, sleeping in the streets
AS | have seen them by the scores, met
aud women lying down on The curbsion,
sound asleep with no homes King Hum
bert is sagacious enough TO say; III an
to have great Italy. u great nation,
must have 1t a nation OF workers, and o
men vho can live in homes with theii
families aronud them" And King Hum
bert is doing everything in his power L
build up Italy rs manufacturing nation
and they bave commenced on cotton
| goods. The agent Of this cotton mill hap
pened TO be German who could talk
talk English enough for me to understand
| was fortunate. inquired about bis
operatives He said they we're frs, class
workmen, good people; they did not un
derstaud machinery very we'll but they
we're good people to work, both men and
women. Said / what are the average
wages you pay in your cotton mill here in
Naples r. well, said he, II pay on the
average about 81 week. Well, that
was the old cry, aud didn't believe it.
Said | "Will you be kind enough to tell
me how you make your average 2" Yes, y
said he; put about two skillful men in
each room, because Italians do not know
much about machinery, and those men
are EnsIisbmen; am obliged to pay them
II little better than English wages, in or
der TO get them, aud pay them about 81
or So a week" "Well, said /, "what do
you pay the rest 2" well, said he, IL
pay my women from 10 to Is and 20 cents
a day, aud | pay my men from So to 45
cents day" That is the way he got his
average. Now, there were not score Of
men there working for 81 or IS a week,
not a score. And that is true, as Mr. Por.
ter knows, 10 Eogland, in Scotland, in
Ireland, 10 Germany and everywhere else
where they undertake to find out the
wages. They will pick out and say, I'VE
pay from S3 week up to $l5" Aud you
get to tue bottom Of it and You will find
they have got two men at Sl5 week and
1000 at So a week. So that the great
bulk Of tue 80 out OF 100 at work IN this
cotton mill we're st work for 20 cents a
day, Tor four out of the five in the mill
were women. How will that be for COM
petition when it gets to 100 mills or 200
mills viii you then look at Italy and
make inquiries as to labor there.
! went into the quarry, not the quarry,
but where they were manufacturing the
granite and marble which bad been quar-
red. | found that the average rate OF
wages of the men was from 40 to 80 cents
per day, the most skilled getting so cents
a day; aud that they regard as high
price.
Go up TO Germany. l went first to
Munich, and the first voyage OF discovery
made into Munich saw about a score OF
Of women, with an awkward looking saw
and singular looking block for the wood
TO rest on, saving wood la the streets OF
Mulch aud carrying il in boxes into the
stones tad seen women do almost ev
esy tLiDg IN Italy aud Belgium, but | bad
not setb th,m dung anything like that
| had curiosity to know about that bust
ness, aud | went off and hunted up an
Interpreter | said, yen go to that woman
aud ask her What she gets day. She
said she got 10 cents day. but she could
make 90 cents If she could work all the
time but that she could not work all day
because abe bad to go home to see to the
children. / asked him to ask her in
heavens name how many children she had
aud how she took care OF them, and she
said she bad six children How does she
take care Of them with Is cents day !?
Oh, said she, II get the first washing
OF that restaurant, pointing to hotel,
"ior 10 cents day, and that feeds them.
Does The free trader in Massachusetts,
want his women to work 10 hours a day
and take care Of six children, and buy OF
the restaurants the fret wssbings to feed
her children with
saw a very intelligent man 10 Germany
who bad studied the subject Of wages 10
Germany. and asked him If he would
talk With me. He said. II will talk with
you very freely, and know what you
desire. And want to tell you it is not
exactly a fair condition ia Germany today